Best Books I Read in 2020
There’s a quote by Alice Walker that I love:
“When I was a child, I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.”
2020 was a year when I reached for the lifeboats more often than usual, and they didn’t fail me. Sometimes I went searching for context on pressing issues like pandemics, racial oppression and climate change. Other times I was just looking for a good story that would transport me into someone else’s life for a while and let me walk around and take it all in.
Overall, I ended up reading 70 books this year. Here are the highlights:
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
2020 was a year when I went from travelling full time to staying put in Serbia, waiting for the Covid-19 pandemic to end. One upside of my newfound stability was that I was able to get some of my favourite books out of storage, and rereading this wonderful collection after 11 years was a real treat. One day, I’ll even complete the Borges marathon I started back in 2009…
On his blog A Writer’s Life, British novelist Andrew Blackman shares book reviews, insights into the writing process and the latest literary news, as well as listing short story contests with a total of more than $250,000 in prize money.
Source: https://andrewblackman.net/2020/12/best-books-2020/
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